GNUNET-PILS(1)

📦 version 0.27.0, in alpine 3.24, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 GNUNET-PILS(1) — like, the whole vibe check

okay bestie, so this is gnunet-pils, straight out of the General Commands Manual — yes the manual manual, the one and only. it's a little command-line tool and honestly? it's giving main character energy for your peer identity. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gnunet-pils — monitor the PILS subsystem 💖

like literally that's its whole job. monitoring. watching. being nosy in the most helpful way possible 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnunet-pils [-c FILENAME | --config=FILENAME] [-h | --help]
            [-L LOGLEVEL | --loglevel=LOGLEVEL] [-1 | --once]
            [-v | --version] [-V | --verbose]

that's the whole shape of it, periodt. flags in brackets, all cute and optional ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: gnunet-pils is a tool that outputs the current peer identity of our peer — from the command-line, no cap. and it does not stop there, bestie. it will continuously output changes until cancelled. like, it keeps going. forever. until you hit Ctrl+C. iconic behavior tbh 😭

so yeah, it's a live feed of your peer identity. lowkey obsessed.

🦋 the options 🦋

  • -c FILENAME | --config=FILENAME — the configuration file to use. that's the one. give it your config, it'll use it 💜
  • -h | --help — print the help page. when in doubt, ask for help, no shame 🫶
  • -L LOGLEVEL | --loglevel=LOGLEVEL — change the loglevel, aka how chatty it gets. possible values for LOGLEVEL are ERROR, WARNING, INFO and DEBUG. pick your vibe 🔥
  • -o | --once — output the current local peer identity and exit. one and done, and honestly? sometimes that's the move.
  • -v | --version — print the version number. gotta know what you're running, iykyk ⭐
  • -V | --verbose — be verbose. yes bestie, say more words 💬
heads up: the synopsis up top says -1 while the option list says -o — that's literally how it's written in the original, so i'm not touching it. copy it exactly, don't "fix" it 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • gnunet-pils(1) — yes it references itself, and honestly? self-love. we stan 💅

the full documentation for gnunet is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if the info(1) and gnunet programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info gnunet

should give you access to the complete handbook ✨

and then

info gnunet-c-tutorial

will give you access to a tutorial for developers 🧚 — yes, devs get their own tutorial, we love that for them.

depending on your installation, this information is also available in gnunet(7) and gnunet-c-tutorial(7). so many doors, all open 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie. report bugs by using https://bugs.gnunet.org or by sending electronic mail to ⟨gnunet-developers@gnu.org⟩. they want to hear from you, fr fr 🍓

okay that's the whole page!! mwah 💋

this lil beauty shipped from Debian, dated July 24, 2025 — go forth and monitor that PILS subsystem, bestie. you're gonna slay 👑💜

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